Bloomberg Daybreak: December 1, 2022 - Hour 1 (Radio)

committee now has President Trump's tax returns. I'm Michael war More Ahead. I'm John Stafstoward. Sports another home loss for the Knicks, beaten by the Bucks, the Nets beat the Wizards, the Rangers one in Ottawa. That's all training ahead on Bloomberg Daybreak on Bloomberg Even Free on New York, Bloomberg one, Washington, d C, Bloomberg one oh six one, Boston, Bloomberg nine sixties and Francisco Sirius x M one nineteen and around the world on Bloomberg Radio dot Com and via the

Bloomberg Business app. Good Thursday Morning. I'm Amy Morris. I'm Nathan Hagar futures are moving just a little bit lower this morning. We're coming up to five oh one on Wall Street. We checked the markets every fifteen minutes during the trading day. On bloomberg SMP futures are down three points, Staff futures down fifty nine. NASTAC futures are lower by twenty five points. Attend. Your treasury is down four thirty seconds. The yell three point six percent. You'll in the two

year four point three three percent. NIME excrudes down two tenths percent at eighty dollars forty cents a barrel, Amy Nathan. We begin with market moving remarks from J. Pale. The Fed chair is signaling the Central Bank will back off its aggressive pace of interest rate hikes as soon as this month. The time for moderating the pace of rate

increases may come as soon as the December meeting. Given our our progress in tightening policy, the timing of that moderation is far less significant than the questions of how much further we will need to raise grades to control inflation. Powell's remarks solidified bets the Fed will downshift to a fifty basis point rate hike on December four after delivering four straight seventy five basis point moves. Well, the equity

markets surged on Powell's comments. Amy The S and P five hundred rally more than three percent to close at a two month high. The NASDAC one hundred jumped four point four percent, and with the Dow's seven hundred thirty seven point advance, that index is now up twenty percent from its September low, meeting the definition now of a

bull market. Sobadra Rajappa's head of US rates strategy with sociate General, I think if you have a picture where invitation is starting to moderate, then they might be willing to kind of be patient, keep rates steady for the domainder of next year, uh and then start to orchestrate a soft landing sucken. Sobadra Rajapa expects rates to remain elevated not only next year, but also into and Nathan, we saw the Wall Street rally spill into markets overseas.

Stocks in Europe are up about half a percent. Equities in Asia advanced overnight at standing games after their best monthly rally in twenty four years. Let's get the recap from Bloomberg's Juliet Sally in Singapore. Good morning, Juliette, Good morning Nathan and Amy. After capping a fifteen percent gain in November, the m s CI Asia Pacific Index jumped as much as two and a half percent Thursday to in August high and is inching closer towards a ball.

Market gauges in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan led gains after a top Chinese official said efforts to combat the virus are entering a new phase, with the omicron variant weakening and vaccination rates rising. Meanwhile, Beijing e some restrictions, lifting the on and the yen traded at a three month high in Singapore. Juliet Sally Bloomberg Daybreak. All right, Juliette, thanks. COVID policies remain front and center in China. We're seeing more signs Beijing may be willing to soften its stance

on virus restrictions. Bloomberg Executive editor Paul Dobson has more from our Singapore bureau today. We learned that in Beijing some people may be allowed to quarantine at home instead of going to quarantine camps, which is obviously good news because people would much rather be in the comfort of their own homes, given the choice a lot of the time, um and and it might give them a little bit more confidence to go out and about when when COVID

isn't around incremensity, that's good news. But directionally, that's very good news because you know, the market is waiting for China to take these decisive steps, you know, the vaccinations that are needed for the elderly, the increase in hospital beds to be able to start that process of opening up, which the rest of the world has already, you know, way ahead of Bloomberg's. Paul dobbs And says it's been three years since the world's first documented coronavirus patient emerged

in China. Back here in the US, we are hearing public comments from Sam Bankman Freed for the first time, the disgraced founder and CEO of the bankrupt ft X crypto Empire is denying fraud while admitting to grievous errors

in management. Whatever happened, why ever it happened, I had a duty add a duty to all of our stakeholders, to our customers, our creditor, is a head duty for our employees, to our investors, and to the regulators of the world to do right by them, to make sure the rate things happened at the company, and uh clear the I'd do a good job of that. I was shocked by what happened this month, Sam Bankman. Freed made the comments by video link at the New York Times

Deal Book Summit. There are still unanswered questions about how fd X ended up with an eight billion dollar hole in its balance sheet and whether it mishandled customer funds. Well. Meantime, Amy is standoff between two of the most powerful tech leaders in the world appears to be easing. Let's get the details Live with Bloomberg, Steve Rappaport, Good Morning Steve,

Good Morning, Nathan, and Amy. Elon Muski is burying the hatchet with Apple's CEO Tim Cook, saying the tiff between the tech giants was a misunderstanding that has been resolved. The Twitter boss claimed without explanation that Apple threatened to block the platform from its app store, but yesterday Musk confirmed he spoke with Cook and says Cook assured him Apple never even considered doing so. A number of businesses paused advertising on Twitter because of concerns about Musk's approach

to moderating content Live in New York. I'm Steve Rappaport, Bloomberg Daybreak. All right, thank you, Steve, and let's get the latest now on efforts to avert a crippling freight rail strike, the House has passed legislation to block the strike, sending it to the Senate, which could take action as soon as this week. The House also passed a related bill that would add seven days have paid sickly to

the rail contract. Bloomberg's Joe Matthew spoke about that with Art Wheaton, director of Labor Studies at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. I agree that the workers deserve the seven days off, but they need to get enough votes in the Senate for it to pass, otherwise we have a strike. I would guess they're not going to add the seven days in the Senate. Art Wheaton is director of Labor Studies at Cornell University and was a guest on sound on Heard weekdays at five pm

Wall Street Time here on Bloomberg Radio. Finally, Amy as inflation pressures remain high, and new survey says New York and Singapore are the most expensive cities to live in. The report comes from the Economist Intelligence Unit. Tel Aviv, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles round out the top five. The survey says the cost of living in the world's largest cities rows more than eight percent over the past year. Yesterday's Big Games futures are moving just a little lower.

S ANDP futures now down three points, Stown futures down fifty four and NASTAC futures are lower by twenty two points. Straight ahead your latest local headlines and a check of sports. This is Bloomberg. Thank you, Nathan. Five oh seven on Wall Street. Let's bring in Michael Barr with more on what else is going on in New York and around the world. Good morning Michael, Good morning Amy. New York's mt am A boost fares on Sunways, buses, and commuter

rail lines by five point five percent next year. It is the first time the transit provider has implemented such a high sense. The MTA faces a potential three billion dollar budget deficit as weekday ridership has plateaued to about sixty of pre pandemic levels. The m t A tends to increase fares by four percent every two years, but of a de Kathy HOCl postponed those hikes during the pandemic.

The House Ways and Means Committee will get to look through Donald Trump's tax returns, Bloomberg said Baxter as the story the I R s as it has complied with the Supreme Court and making the returns available, did not confirm whether members of the panel have accessed them. The committee reportedly will meet today to decide what to do

with the returns. This has been a long journey as a committee has been seeking the documents since Trump had repeatedly said during the campaign that he would make the returns public, but then fought all the way to the Supreme Court. The committee has argued it needs to see the returns to draft legislation on presidential compliance with tax law. In San Francisco, I'm at Baxter Bloomberg day Break. The US Appeals Court rejects the Biden administration's requests to reinstate

the student debt relief plan. President Biden announced in August that the government would forgive up to ten thousand dollars in student loan debt for borrowers making less than one twenty five thousand dollars a year. About twenty six million Americans have applied for student loan forgiveness. Loyola Law University

professor Lorie Levinson. These loans are supposed to be repaid starting in January, and unless a court uphold surviving the plan, then these people who thought they would have the loans forgiven will have to start paying. Loyola Law University professor Lourie Levinson says the next stop is likely the Supreme Court. The New York Grid Operator warned that electricity supplies will be tied as early as twenty three as demand grows and old generators shut down, increasing the risk of blackouts.

The New York Independent System Operators says the availability of power supplies will thin over the next decade as more power plants fueled by natural gas shut down and demand grows for electric vehicles and home heating. Global News twenty four hours a day on air and on Bloomberg Quick Take, powered by more than twenty seven hundred journalists and unless more than twenty countries. I'm Michael bar This is Bloomberg Guinea.

All right, thank you, Michael, Now for the sports report, brought to you by Try State OUTI here's John's dash our thanks to Amy. The Knicks won their first three home games this season. Since then at the Garden, they've gone one and six, beaten by the Bucks one thirteen, one oh seven too much. Jana's son to the compo thirty seven points are j Barrett leather Nicks with twenty six. Julius Randall said only eight of twenty four. Jalen Brunson was eight of twenty two. Together they were one of

twelve on three pointers. Then AT's in Brooklyn by Washington one thirteen, one oh seven. That's three straight wins to move over five hundred. Kevin Durant having a sensational season, averaging thirty per game, shooting fifty five percent. He scored thirty nine. Kybrier of the United Seven Rangers in Ottawa had the league looking for more. The Rangers control of the draw, send it back up with Savannah Jat up the middle, leaves it back into the far wing for

VC spins to his forehand and backhand to behind. Then at the Savannah Jat. Savannah Jat slings into the air point and Lingray with the shot and they store Rider was in front. I think he deflected it. At the Rangers. They ESPN New York call it it was pridor Is eleven goal at fifty two. Last year, Rangers beat the Senators three to one. College James Rutgers lost at in Miami sixty one on the Big ten A c C Challenge. The two conferences split six games Tuesday and split six

more last night. Australia, Argentina, Poland all learned their way into the World Cup knockout round. France had already cleanched four more spots up for grabs today in Qatar. The Giants love a visitor at their facility today. Odell Beckham Jr. The ex Giant, has not played this season, but now said to have recovered from the torn A c L suffer in the Super Bowl while he was with the Rams. The Cowboys also very much interested in signing oh b J.

The game tonight Buffalo at New England. John Stash Howard Bloomberg Sports team, All right, thank you, John, checking features now s and P futures down four, Dell futures down fifty eight points, NAZDAC futures down. Ten year treasury down to thirty seconds, the yield at three point six p. Much more still to come on this Thursday MO edition of Bloomberg daybreak is Bloomberg. The Bloomberg Sports Report was brought to you by Audie. Don't let someone else drive

off in the Autie model you've always wanted. Visit your local twice state Autie either to get behind the wheel of yours today, or visit Autie Offers dot com for more information, markets, headlines and breaking news twenty four hours a day at Bloomberg dot Com, the Bloomberg Business Out, and at Bloomberg Quick Tape, He's a Bloomberg Business Flash, Nathan Hagar. Global stocks are climbing, the dollar is slipping to a three month low. Is fresh signs emerge of

a softening in China's COVID stance and fed share. J. Powell confirms the pace of interest rate hikes maybe set to slow. We checked the markets every fifteen minutes during the trading day on Bloomberg. Right now, A futures in the US are moving lower, SMP futures are down two point, STAFF futures down, and SECT futures are down nineteen point. The decks in Germany is higher, though by four tenths percent.

CAC in Paris little change now to the upside ten Your treasuries down three thirty seconds deal three point six held on the two year four point three three percent nime ex screws up a quarter percent of twenty cents at eighty dollar seventy five cents a barrel. Comics gold moving higher up one point ninety seventy cents sixty gets you announce of gold. The euro one point zero four four seven against the dollar British pound one point two

one four six. The en is at one thirty six point three four thirty Wall Street Time, we get initial jobless claims and the PCE Corps deflator at ten am I s M manufacturing data. That's a Bloomberg business flash. Now here's Michael Barr with more on what's going on around the world. Michael, thank you very much. Nathan. A House committee can now get a look at six years of Donald Trump's tax returns. It comes a week after

the Supreme Court cleared the way for their release. More Chinese cities are easing samanti virus restrictions as police patrol their streets to head all protests. Last weekend, bro to masters in Shanghai, Beijing and other cities demanded an end to controls that can find millions of people to their homes. In the NBA, the next loss, the Nets beat the Wizards one thirteen one oh seven the Celtics one. In the NHL, the Rangers won at the World Cup four

games today, including Germany against Costa Rica. Global News twenty four hours a day on air and on Bloomberg Quicktake, powered by more than twenty seven hundred journalists and analysts more than a hundred twenty countries. I'm Michael bar This is Bloomberg Gaming. All right, Thank you, Michael. It's five nineteen on Wall Street Live from the Bloomberg Interactive Broker Studios. This is Bloomberg Daybreak. We're joined now by Chief Market

analyst Michael Houston at CMC Markets. Michael, good morning to you. We're talking about FED chair Pale. He signaled a great height slowdown yesterday during his speech. What does that mean for equity markets? Well, yeah, good morning. I mean, I think we saw the consequences of that statement yesterday in the context of a slide in ten year yields as well as two yields, but also a spike higher in

equity markets. And I think it's really confirmation of what the market was already thinking that the federal Reserve was likely to hike by fifty basis points in December. That's pretty much priced in. But I think what's notable now it's not really about what comes in December, it's what

comes after that. And I think some of the data that we saw yesterday would bear to suggest that the Federal Reserve is probably going to start getting a little bit concerned about pushing too hard on raising rates much more aggressively than they have been. So for me, it's not about what comes in December. Fifty basis points is

pretty much nailed on. It's what comes after that, And I think that, more than anything, is likely to be the key focus for the FED meeting in just under two weeks time what comes in next year with respect to future rate hikes. The past couple of months have seen a rally. Do you see this as a bear market rally? Yeah, I'm on the fence on that at the moment. I think largely because of the fact that we're heading into the December period, which generally tends to

be a fairly low liquidity time of year. You've either major money for the year or you've lost your money for the year, and you don't want to lose anymore. So it's going to take something really substantive, I think, to really drive stock markets lower from where they are at the moment. I think for now the markets are in the holding pattern ahead of these central bank meetings in two weeks time. Not only have we got the Federal Reserve, we've got the European Central Bank, We've got

the Bank of England. And the prevailing narrative at the moment is that inflation has potentially paid and the bigger question now is how quickly does it come down? And how long do rates stay at their current levels or go higher? So what are you watching or as the perspective that I love it when you anticipate my next question, whether inflation is peaked and the sort of timeline that we're looking at there, I think inflation has peaked. I think the bigger question that markets are asking now is

how quickly does it come down? And for me, I think we're near the top of the rate hiking cycle. I think the Federals struggle to raise rates by more than another fifty basis points over and above what they're going to do in December, given the weakness that we're seeing, not only in the US economy in terms of the manufacturing data, but more broadly in Europe as well. So going ahead, I think we'll know more next year, and I think we could see some early equity market weakness

in January February next year. Between now and Christmas, I think there's potential for us to move a little bit higher before we have another test of the downside. Stick down a little bit on that. Where do you see those weak spots in the U S data? Well, manufacturing yesterday, I mean that's Chicago p and my number was pretty poor.

I'll be interested to see whether or not the I S M manufacturing numbers later today bear that out, particularly on the prices paid component, which has had its lowest levels since mid So that's where I will be paying particular attention to services is holding up fairly well. We saw that in the ADP numbers on Wednesday. It will be interesting to see whether we're non farm payrolls also replicate that trend when they're released on Friday. It's shifting

gears just a little bit. We only have about a minute here, But how is China a factor in all of this? It's a factor in so much that if they're fully locked down, they're obviously not adding to the overall economic output of the global economy. If they're slowly starting to move to a gradual reopening, what that does is it makes it much less likely that the global economy will fall off the cliff in three So a

gradual reopening is probably the best outlook going forward. If they open very very quickly, there is a risk that could cause an inflationary spike when it comes to energy prices. We don't want that, so gradually opening on the back of slowly easing COVID restrictions is probably the best case scenario for China. All right, Thank you so much, Michael for taking time with us on this Thursday morning, especially the day after FED chair Pal made those comments yesterday

at the Brookings Institution. We appreciate you taking the time with us. Chief Market analyst Michael Houston at CMC Markets checking the markets, SMP futures down two points, DAL futures down fifty one, NASTAC futures down twenty one points, the ten year treasury down to thirty seconds, the yield at three point two, year yield now at four point three two, and Brent crude now trading six tenths of a percent higher. That's fifty six cents at eighty seven dollars at fifty

three cents per barrel. Much more to come on Bloomberg Daybreak. This is Bloomberg the Bloomberg eleven three oh forecast. Sunny and breezy, going up to forty five degrees with more sun Tomorrow a little mile they're going up to fifty showers. Return for your weekend on Saturday, going up to sixty degrees.

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need to know at this hour. Starting with the FED chair J. Powell is signaling the Central Bank will ease it's aggressive pace of raising interest rates as soon as this month. The time for moderating the pace of rate increases may come as soon as the December meeting. Given our our progress in tightening policy, the timing of that moderation is far less significant than J. Pal's remarks indicate the Fed it's likely to shift to a fifty basis

point hike at its next decision. Equity markets advanced sharply on Pal's comments. David Cutlof, founder of main Stake Capital Management, says the more dovish tone was appropriate for current economic conditions. I think it's a recognition too of looking at the data p M E s or in contraction territory pending home sales down thirty year over year, and we haven't felt the full impact of these rate hikes we've had.

David Goodlave with main Steak Capital Management believes Powell's comments also indicate he's mindful of the Fed going too far with rate hikes. Well, the SP five hundred close three percent higher after Powell's remarks, Amy and the rally extended. Overseas stocks in Europe and Asia advanced. In China, there's also optimism on COVID with authorities they're downplaying the severity of the virus. China's COVID zar now says the country's

in a new phase of the pandemic. Back in the US, Nathan disgraced ft X founder Sam Bankman Freed spoke publicly yesterday denying fraud while admitting to management errors. At a duty to all of our stakeholders, to our customers, our futor, is a high duty to our employees, to our investors, to the regulators in the world to do right by them, to make sure the rate things happened to the company, and I do a good job of that. Sam Bankman Freed spoke at the New York Times deal Books Senate.

It's a big technolo Amy, where a standoff between two powerful CEOs appears to be easy. Bloomberg Steve Rappaport joins US Live with the story. Good morning Steve, Good morning, Nathan and Amy it was all a misunderstanding. That's how

Elon Musk described his with Apple CEO Tim Cook. The Twitter chief accused the platform of threatening to boot Apple up Twitter from its app store, But on Wednesday, Musk said the tech bosses spoke and the matter has been resolved, with Cook reassuring him that Apple never intended to cut ties with Twitter. Live in New York, I'm Steve Rappaport Bloomberg Day Break. All right, Steve, thank you. In a political note this morning, the House has passed legislation to

block a freight rail strike. The bill now goes to the Senate, which could take action as soon as this week. Futures are moving a little lower this morning. Straight ahead, your latest local headlines, and a check of sports. This is Bloomberg. Thank you, Nathan. It's five thirty three on Wall Street. Let's bring in Michael Barr with more on what else is going on in New York and around the world. Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Amy. Fairs me

rise next year for New York mt A riders. Fairs on subways, busses, and commuter rail lines could go up by five point five percent next year. The potential increase would push the two so many five costs of a single subway or bus ride to tow ninety next year, and three dollars five cents in. It comes as the agency is seeking additional federal, state, or city funding to help fill budget deficits. The Biden administration student loan forgiveness

plan remains on hold. The Fifth U s Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request from the federal government to temporarily reverse a lower court order that blocked rolled out of the plan. Loyola Law University professor Lorie Levinson says the next stop is likely the Supreme Court. The Fifth Circuit delta blow President Biden's plan to have a loan forgiveness program for student loans, but the courts have been saying that in fact, Biden did not have the power

to move forward on this. Loyola Law University professor Lorie Levinson. The Treasury Department turned over six years of Donald Trump's tax returns to a House committee after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the release. The ways and means can He has been seeking the return saying it needs them to consider potential legislation on presidential compliance with tax rules. Public accountability and mandatory I R. S. Audit policy for presidents.

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree was officially lit up last night in New York City. Fifty thousand led lights are on the eight two foot tall Norway Spruce in Midtown Manhattan. Christine McVeigh has done McVeigh sang lead on many of Fleetwood Mac's biggest hits, like Little Lies. McVie wrote many of the group's songs. Christine McVeigh was seventy nine Global News twenty four hours a day on air and on Bloomberg Quicktake, powered by more than twenty seven hundred journalists

analysts more than a hundred twenty countries. Michael Barr and this is Bloomberg Gaming. All right, thank you, Michael. Now for the sports were far brought to you by Try State Outie. Here's John dash Our alright. Amy Nicks continued have their struggles at home, just one win at the Garden in the past month, beaten by Milwaukee one oh nine one oh three. Nason to the compold the Bucks with thirty seven points. Kevin Durant led the Nets with

thirty nine. They beat Washington at Barkley's one thirteen one oh seven. The Nets with three straight wins move over five hundred. The Rangers had lost their last three, but in Ottawa a goal each period, all three assisted by Ryan Lyndren. Rangers beat the Senators three to one with backup yars level Lock in goal, his first win as a Ranger. A long time Pittsburgh Penguins all started. Defenceman Chris Latang just suffered a stroke for the second time.

Also happened back in two thousand and fourteen when he missed two months from the tank. Is expecting to return at some point. The NFL game tonight Buffalo at New England. It's a game the Jets will have an interest in. The a f C East has the Bills and Dolphins at top at eight and three. Of The Jets are seven and four, the Patriots to six and five the Jets on Sunday is that the nine and two Vikings. Jets coach Rob Southard, there's a reason why they're that

they have. They've being everybody in under vision. UM, they'd be Miami, they'd be Buffalo, they'd be New England. They're they're very talented. UM offensively, they've got skill players, are very well coached. UM Defensively, They're very veteran, very smart. They play smart sala football. So um, it's challenge cannage

for the Giant. Sunday, Washington comes in everyone six of the last seven Giants has lost twice in a six days fan ESPN reports the Yankees offered to Aaron Judge is eight years, three million dollars, about sixty five million more than what they offered to Judge last spring. It's believe Judge will either stay in New York or signed with San Francisco. John Stashar Bloomberg Sporting Team. All right, thank you, John. It's five seven on Wall Street time

now for the Tri State Business Report. Here with that is Bloomberg's Joan Donnager. New York and Singapore are tight now for the top spot on a list of the world's most expensive cities. The Economist Intelligence Units Worldwide Cost of Living Report says it got more than eight percent more. It's beensive in the past year, in part because of the supply chain snarls and Russia's war in Ukraine. The National Labor Relations Board says the way Amazon responded to

a federal judges order made a mockery of it. The judge had barred Amazon from firing workers at JFK eight, the Staten Island fulfillment center that first unionized for union activity. The judge ordered Amazon to read out a public notice about that within a week. The labor board isn't happy with how it did that, and the owner of a New Jersey shopping mall could face foreclosure. It has not landed new financing for a three hundred million dollar mortgage

that came to this month. Bridgewater Commons in Somerset Counties, owned by a joint venture of the New York State Teachers Retirement System and JP Morgan Chase's asset management arm. That's the Bloomberg Try State Business Report on Joan Donneger. All right, thank you, John Now on Wall Street. Bloomberg Radio is on the air from San Francisco to New York,

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Bloomberg Business Flash. I'm Nathan Hagar. Futures are giving back some of yesterday's surge following signs emerging of a softing in China's COVID stance and remarks from FED chair J. Pale confirming the pace of interest rate hikes is set to slow. We checked the markets every fifteen minutes during the trading day on Bloomberg. SMP futures right now are down two points, staff features down fifty nanstack futures are

lower by twenty five points ten. Your treasury is down to thirty seconds held three point six one percent yield on the two year four point three two percent. NIMEX screwed is up six tenths per cent, or forty nine cents at eighty one dollars four cents of arrol comes. Gold is up one point eight percent of thirty one ten even and ounce. The euro one point zero four to eight against the dollar, British pound one point two one four six, the En one thirty six point four six.

Bitcoin is little changed at seventeen thousand, one hundred. That's a Bloomberg business flash. Now here's Michael Bahar with more on what's going on around the world. Michael, thank you very much. Nathan. The House voted to block a strong by the nation's railway workers, and a separate vote also adding seven days of paid sick leave to the agreement. Both bills now head to the Senate in the hopes

of averting the strength that could cripple the economy. President Joe Biden is set to welcome French President Emmanuel mccrawl to the White House today. The visit will conclude with the first state dinner of the Biden administration. In the NBA, the next loss the Nets beat the Wizards, the Celtics one in the NHL, the Rangers one. At the World Cup,

four games today, including Germany against Costa Rica. Global News twenty four hours a day on air and on Bloomberg Quicktake, powered by more than twenty seven hundred journalist and analysts more than a hundred twenty countries. Michael Barr and this is Bloomberg Gaming all right, Thank you, Michael. It is forty nine on Wall Street Live from the Bloomberg Interactive

Broker Studios. This is Bloomberg Daybreak. Fed Jr. J Pal signaled the Federal Reserve will slow the pace of interest rate increases next month, while stressing borrowing costs will need to keep rising and remain restrictive for some time to beat inflation. We're joined now by Jennifer Lee, senior economist at BEMO Capital Markets. Jennifer, thank you for taking the time with us this morning, and good morning to you. What's your takeaway from pale speech? Oh, good morning, thank

you for having me on so Um. First of all, I would like to say holy market reaction yesterday. It was quite amazing seeing the market react to his comments. But um, it was a lot of a little bit of old, a little bit of new, And I think what was new was almost like it was almost like forward guidance, just saying that it would come as soon as the December meeting, this this moderation rate increases, and that sort of confirmed to us what we've been thinking.

We've been calling for fifty beats. Um, you know, finally an end to the semi five basis point increases. So this was pretty much you know, cemented that view. And uh, I don't think he could get to be clearer than that. You mentioned the market reaction. I want to get your take on that. So it was I mean, watching you know, tenure yield faults so quickly, and of course saw a start market reaction. But this is you know, obviously encouraging news.

The fact that you know, the all that frontloading, the four semi five basis point rate hikes in a rope um, it's only going to cool off, I mean, but give At the same time, we have to remember this doesn't mean that they all rates are going to be coming down anytime soon. They're just not gonna be rising at such a quick pace. And I think, you know, any good news these days will be will be taken and seized by by by the markets. And we saw it

on yesterday and playing on space. Were you surprised? Was he more dovish than you expected? Um? Not really Um, you know, I mean, I guess the one, if you want to call it devilish comments would be um. And this was to me a little bit of me with a bit of relief, was when he said that it wouldn't be appropriate to what did he say, crash the

economy and clean up afterwards. And this comes after you know a number of occasions when he use the word of pain to describe what the economy is going to be feeling, and you know, and and it gave me, at least me the view that he will be okay with sending the economy into recession. But having you know, hearing him say that, you know, he wouldn't be um keen on crashing the economy. Maybe that's an extreme measure

that he was using. Was to me a little bit since of relief and that was what was new, Um. But everything else, you know, he was still saying that they will need substantially more evidence about inflation. You know, you can't just use October's CPR report as as the

be all and end all. He's gonna need a lot more to give confirmation that inflation is declining and that you know that rates are going to be staying high for some time and uh um, and you know there there's going to be a lot of uncertainty still for inflation ahead. So it's still hawkish, but not as hawkish as he was. Was good about a minute and a half here, Jennifer. We have more data coming out the jobs report tomorrow, CPI on the thirteenth. How crucial are

those reports for the fact? I think they are crucial. Um. I don't think they're going to change the December view now, you know the man's through view. Now that is going to be a fifty basis point rain hike. Um. You know, unless, of course, there's some massive increase in CPI, which we're we're not, I don't think we're expecting. So you know, what we want to see is continued moderation in in in the numbers. And this is the era which I'm trying to writ my head around, is that you know,

good is bad and bad is good. You know, normally we would like to see what most of us would like to see, good economic data and you know, positive news in the economy, but that of course would mean higher for longer I guess, so you know, we would be okay with seeing some weaker j old status some weaker payroll growth, you know, some weaker personal spending later on this morning, and that will be I think good news for the economy and good news for for the Fed.

All Right, thank you so much Jennifer for taking the time with us this morning breaking it all down. Senior economists Jennifer Lee at BEMO Capital Markets. Nathan, Thanks Amy. We're coming up to five three on Wall Street. It's sign now for the Bloomberg Law Report. Let's get to the legal stories we're watching this morning. Here's Bloomberg's Jeff Balinger. The Government Accountability Office says the Internal Revenue Service should

strengthen its oversight with paid tax preparers. A federal circuit rule that withholding wages from federal workers who are required to work ring a government shutdown does not violate timely pay laws. The Silicon Valley law firm Cooley says it must adjust to slowing demand for services. The firm has fired one hundred fifty attorneys and staff. Bloomberg Law everything you need on one legal research platform, guidance analysis, and

Bloomberg market Intelligence. Find out more at Bloomberg Law dot com. Now another legal story we're watching, the public's opinion of the Supreme Court reached historic lows after the decision to reverse the constitutional right to abortion in the Dobbs case, but a new Marquette Law School poll shows a slight rebound in public approval of the High Court. This comes ahead of a term that could be just as controversial as the last, with decisions expected on affirmative action, voting rights,

and gay rights. For more. Bloomberg's June Grosso speaks to constitutional law professor Michael Dorff of Cornell Law School. A new Market Law School poll finds only of adults approve of the job the Supreme Court is doing, while fifty disapprove. But those approval numbers are actually up a bit from September, where approved and six disapproved. What's happened between September and now to lead to a bit more approval of the court.

Public opinion polling about the Supreme Court is notoriously weird because people don't have a lot of information about the Supreme Court. They often don't really understand the meaning of cases. If I had to guess, I would say that the decline in disapproval of the Supreme Court reflects the fact that more time has elapsed since the Dabs opinion, which was the last very salient mention of the Supreme Court. It's also possible that it reflects us about affirmative action.

Affirmative action has been unpopular for a couple of decades now, so that even blue states like Michigan in California a number of years ago forbade it by ballot initiative. So insofar as there was news reporting that the Supreme Court is considering making affirmative action unlawful, I could see how that would lead to a slight uptick in approval rating

for the Court. There's a great fear since the Jobs decision that the super conservative majority on this Court is going to lay waste to precedent in cases this term from you know, affirmative action, the Voting Rights Act, giving state legislatures unprecedented power to up end federal elections. Do you think that people are right to be concerned? Yes, in each of the three cases you just identified, I think that it is not only possible but likely that

they will reach very conservative results. I think they will forbid all or almost all race based affirmative action. I think they will further constrain the Voting Rights Act. And I have somewhat less confident, and I therefore I'm a little bit more hopeful with respect to what they're going to do in more against Harper, the case involving the

so called independent date legislature theory. But I know that based on what various of the conservative justices have said in other contexts, that they're at least sympathetic to some version of this idea that a state legislature can decide for itself how to allocate its electors, and a presidential election or as in this particular case is involved, gets the final say over the drawing of district lines, notwithstanding the intervention of a state Supreme court based on the

state constitution. That's Professor Michael Dorff of Cornell Law School speaking with Bloomberg's June Groszel. You can catch more of that interview, plus analysis of the latest legal news by subscribing to the Bloomberg Law podcast or downloading the show at Bloomberg dot com. Slash podcasts, and attorneys can find exceptional legal research and business development tools at Bloomberg Law dot com and on the Bloomberg terminal at b law.

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